- From: Simon Sapin <simon.sapin@exyr.org>
- Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 10:17:12 +0100
- To: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On 04/02/2014 02:32, Simon Sapin wrote: > On 04/02/2014 02:20, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: >> During the f2f, I got private feedback from Rossen that, while the IE >> team understands the value of the subgrid functionality, they feel >> it's too much additional complexity to gate shipping Grid on. Waiting >> for it would likely delay exposing Grid to the public for some time, >> which is unfortunate. >> >> I wanted to get feedback from Chrome's implementors as well before I >> made any request, so I asked Julien Chaffraix about it today. He >> agreed completely - while the examples seem fine, the implementation >> will be sufficiently difficult that it would delay shipping Grid for >> several months at least, possibly more. >> >> Given that the rest of Grid's recent changes are minor tweaks that >> will require only a tiny bit of implementation work before we're ready >> to ship publicly, I'd like to ask to remove the subgrid functionality >> from level 1 of the spec. >> >> I know it's currently at-risk, but I don't feel like that section of >> the spec will be CR-ready before Chrome and IE are ready to ship >> implementations of the rest of the spec publicly. We should go ahead >> and punt it now, rather than pretending that it'll stay through to CR >> or delaying the CR of the spec due to this. > > > Speaking for Mozilla: Yes, do it. I retract the above. I find fantasai’s arguments convincing. Mozilla is not excluding shipping some implementation of CSS Grid without subgrid at some point, but we haven’t decided yet. -- Simon Sapin
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